7 Principles for Smart Teaching

Twelfth Annual Faculty Conference on Teaching Excellence
7 Principles for
Smart Teaching
with Michele DiPietro and Marsha C. Lovett,
co-authors of the book How Learning Works
January 17, 2014
Howard Gittis Student Center
Session Abstracts
PLENARY SPEAKERS
Room: 200C
Marsha Lovett, How Learning Works: Knowledge and Application
Agenda
Time
Session
9.00am – 9.30am
Registration and Continental Breakfast (lobby & 200AB)
9.30am – 9.35am
General Session, Welcome (200C)
General Session, Plenary Speaker (200C)
Dr. Marsha Lovett is Director of the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence
and Educational Innovation, and a Teaching Professor in the Department
of Psychology, both at Carnegie Mellon. At the Eberly Center, she applies
theoretical and empirical principles from cognitive psychology to help
instructors improve their teaching.
How Learning Works: Knowledge and Application,
Marsha Lovett
Michele DiPietro, How Learning Works: Motivation and Development
Hai-Lung Dai, Provost and Senior Vice President for
Academic Affairs, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Chemistry
9.30am – 11.00am
11.00am – 11.15am
Break
11.15am – 12.30pm
Morning Breakout Sessions, 1-5 (220, 217A, B, C, D)
Sessions led by members of the Provost’s Teaching Academy
12.30pm – 1.15pm
Marsha Lovett will begin the conference discussing the
importance of helping students build and connect rich
knowledge structures and supporting them in their
development of mastery. In each area, we will review key
research results and discuss ways to leverage them in our
pedagogy.
Dine and Discuss (200AB)
Lunch & small group discussions at roundtables
1.15pm – 2.00pm
Poster Session on Teaching Excellence (200C)
2.00pm – 3.15pm
Afternoon Breakout Sessions, 6-10 (220, 217A, B, C, D)
Sessions led by members of the Provost’s Teaching Academy
3.15pm – 3.25pm
Break
3:25pm – 5.00pm
General Session, Plenary Speaker (200C)
How Learning Works: Motivation and Development,
Michele DiPietro
Michele DiPietro will focus on three of the principles discussed
in the book. This conversation highlights the importance of
student motivation, intellectual maturity, and strategic selfawareness, as they play out in the socio-emotional climate of
the course. We’ll close the day discussing highlights from the
research and implication for our teaching.
Dr. Michele DiPietro is the Executive Director of the Center for Excellence
in Teaching and Learning and an Associate Professor in the Department
of Mathematics and Statistics at Kennesaw State University. He is also the
immediate Past President of the Professional and Organizational Development
(POD) Network in Higher Education, the premiere faculty development
association in North America.
Learn more about
our plenary speakers
at temple.edu/tlc
Session Abstracts
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Led by members of the Provost’s Teaching Academy (PTA)
MORNING SESSIONS (1-5)
11.15am – 12.30pm
1. Motivating Students in Online Learning
Elizabeth Pfeiffer, Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Health
Professions
Room 220
This session will explore the conditions that contribute to student
motivation. Participants will learn practical strategies to help
students value what they are learning and expect that they can
succeed, as well as create a supportive environment in the unique
context of online learning.
2. Why Don’t My Students Know This By Now? How Do Students
Develop Mastery of Skills?
Istvan Varkonyi, Director, General Education Program
Room 217A
We often encounter students in upper-level courses failing to
complete a task successfully because they seem to lack a skill set
they should have already mastered in lower-division course. This
session will discuss why this happens and how we can address it.
3. How Can I Create a Course Climate Conducive to Learning in My
Increasingly Larger Classes?
Robert Pred, Statistics, Fox School of Business
Room 217B
Many faculty have seen dramatic increases in their course
enrollments, but want to maintain an inclusive course climate that
keeps students engaged. Participants will hear strategies to make
the large class feel small from a faculty member with years of
experience teaching auditoriums full of students.
4. Smartphones and Storytelling: Deepening Community-Based
Learning with New Media
Terry Halbert, Legal Studies, Fox School of Business
Room 217C
This session features a case-study from a community-based
GenEd course about immigration. Students in this course learned
interviewing and editing techniques to create digital stories about
immigrants. Listen to their three-minute stories, and hear from
them how this alternative to traditional research can strengthen the
connections between learning in the classroom and activism in the
world. Participants will dream about their own course and its possible
intersection with new media and community experience.
5. Scaffolding Your Instruction to Enhance Student Learning
Steven Kreinberg, Music Studies, Boyer College of Music and Dance
Room 217D
Are your students just not ‘getting it’ in some of your classes? Do
your students nod knowingly about a topic during a lecture, only
to do poorly on an assignment or an exam? Learn some methods of
scaffolding your instruction that will assist students to move from
performing simple tasks to those that require greater complexity and
mastery. Participants will have a scaffolded music listening experience
featuring Bugs Bunny as ‘The Rabbit of Seville.’
AFTERNOON SESSIONS (6-10)
2.00pm – 3.15pm
6. Making Learning Count: Cultivating Skills for Life-Long Learning
Ina Calligaro, School of Pharmacy
Room 220
We all hope our students will leave the University committed to
being life-long learners. However, we aren’t always sure how to
help students cultivate the attitudes and skills needed to be selfdirected learners. This workshop will provide the opportunity to
discuss and share teaching strategies and assignments that foster
the development of the metacognitive skills needed to learn
independently.
7. Coursecast: The Classroom Extender
Justin Shi, Computer & Information Sciences, College of Science and
Technology
Room 217A
This session will share Temple University’s Department of Computer and
Information Sciences’ lessons and experiences using the panopto.com’s
video recording services for its major and minor courses. The session
will explore how these recordings create opportunities for self-directed
learning. Additionally, participants will hear of CIS’s current plan for
streaming major courses to TU Japan.
8. Don’t be a Sage, Engage on the Stage
David Ingram, Theater, School of Communication and Theater
Room 217B
Your classroom is a lot like a theater and you have an important role to
play. This session will familiarize participants with basic theater techniques
for engaging and maintaining an audience’s attention. Activities and
discussion will apply these principles to the college classroom, focusing on
how to engage your students in order to create positive course climate.
9. A Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing
Gerard Brown, Foundations Program, Tyler School of Art
Room 217C
In teaching foundations of art, faculty must push students beyond prior
conceptions of art and art making. This experience of working against
(or with) prior knowledge is common in many disciplines. In this session
participants will learn ways to overcome their students’ incomplete or
inaccurate prior knowledge and build on what they do know to improve
student learning.
10. Do I Have to Work in a Group and Who are the Students I am Grouped
With?
Michael Stokes, Director, Russell Conwell Center, Vice Provost for
Undergraduate Studies
Room 217D
Group projects are a time-tested, essential part of learning and assessment,
yet students often hate them and don’t share the workload equally. How
can group projects become more productive and less painful for students?
We’ll examine a variety of methods to increase student motivation,
participation and engagement in group work.
Poster Session
POSTER SESSION ON TEACHING EXCELLENCE
Room: 200C
1. Beyond the Graduate Student’s CV: The Academic ePortfolio as an Asset
for the Job Market
‐‐ Gabriele Bauer, Director of the Institute for Teaching and Learning,
Villanova University; Philip Barnes, Doctoral Candidate, University of
Delaware
2. eLearning; eFeedback; eFfective?
‐‐ Margaret Biner, Professor of Business Administration, Marketing and
E-Commerce, Berkeley College Online
3. Incorporating Physical Diversity and Variations of Aging into the Physical
Assessment Lab: Patient Teaching Associates
‐‐ Elizabeth Blunt, Director of Nurse Practitioner Programs, Villanova
University; Kelly Nestor, Clinical Instructor of Nursing, Villanova
University
4. Practicing What We Preach: Inter-disciplinary Collaborative Teaching the
DEC Core Courses at Philadelphia University
‐‐ Leslie Browning-Samoni, School of Business Administration: Fashion
Merchandising and Management, Philadelphia University; Nioka Wyatt,
Assistant Professor, Philadelphia University
5. The Implementation of a Multidisciplinary Simulation into International
Business Courses
‐‐ Brian Colfer, Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare
Business, University of the Sciences
6. Using interdisciplinary, real-world projects to build collaboration and
communication skills in an undergraduate studio course
‐‐ Kim Douglass, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture,
Philadelphia University
7. Databases for Many Majors, Visual and Cooperative Learning: A ThreeWay Braid
‐‐ Don Goelman, Associate Professor of Computing Sciences, Villanova
University
8. Flipping Introduction to Psychology: Outcomes for Student Perception of
the Discipline
‐‐ Julia Heberle, Associate Professor of Psychology, Albright College
9. Consistent Online Course Structure Allows for Greater Classroom
Creativity
‐‐ Tamar Klaiman, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Public Health,
University of the Sciences
10. A Constructivist Approach to Designing Collaborative Hands-on
Activities for Virtual Computer Laboratories
‐‐ Abdullah Konak, Professor, Information Sciences & Technology, Penn
State Berks; Mahdi Nasereddin, Associate Professor, Penn State Berks;
Tricia Clark, Director, Center for Learning & Teaching, Penn State Berks
11. Integrating Ecological Literacy and Teacher Education: The Experimental
Classroom
‐‐ Andrea Kornbluh, Instructor of Biological Sciences, Rowan University
12. Are Students Getting Better in Teamwork Communication?
‐‐ Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Professor of Management Information Systems,
Penn State Berks
13. Creating and Structuring an Interdisciplinary High Impact University
Project
‐‐ Evan Laine, Professor/Director of Law & Society, Philadelphia University
14. The Pinterest Project: Active Learning Using Social Media in the
Classroom
‐‐ Kendra Lapolla, Assistant Professor of Fashion Department, Albright
College, Kent State University
15. “It’s All An Act: Incorporating Drama and Visual Arts into the Teaching
of Psychology”
‐‐ Susan Lawrence, Adjunct Instructor of Psychology, Ursinus College;
Montgomery County Community College
16. Revamping Lexical Sets: New Ways in Teaching L2 Vocabulary in Foreign
Language and English as a Second Language (ESL)
‐‐ William Longbottom, Instructor of English as a Second Language,
Temple University
17. Shakespeare with Seniors: One Pedagogy Two Goals
‐‐ Jennifer Mattisoff, Assistant Professor of English, Arcadia University;
Celeste Walker, Adjunct Professor of Integrated Studies, Arcadia
University
18. Rubrics for ACRL Information Literacy Standards and Aligned with
Middle States Accreditation Standard
‐‐ Jeanette McVeigh, Coordinator of Electronic Resources, Information
Science, University of the Sciences
19. A Method of Using Evidenced-based Learning to Educate Nursing Students
‐‐ Sandra O’Sullivan, Adjunct Instructor of Nursing and Allied Health,
Harrisburg Area Community College, Gettysburg Campus
20. Learning Together: A Collaborative Approach to Using Effective Tutoring
Strategies in a Media Writing Classroom
‐‐ Holly Ott, Visiting Instructor, Communication/Journalism, Shippensburg
University; Carrie Sipes, Assistant Professor, Department of
Communication/Journalism, Shippensburg University; Rachel Bryson,
Graduate Assistant, Shippensburg University Writing Studio
21. Reconstructing the Framework and Approach to Teaching Non-Science
Major Chemistry
‐‐ Niny Rao, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Mathematics,
Philadelphia University; Crystal Smith, Adjunct Professor, Philadelphia
University; Jeffrey Ashley, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Interim
Director, Center for Teaching Innovation & Nexus Learning, Philadelphia
University
22. Improving Students’ Comprehension of Biology Labs with Audio-Visual
Materials
‐‐ Cinzia Sevignani, Assistant Teaching Professor of Biology, College of
Science and Technology, Temple University
23. Small Group based Learning Methodology in Mathematics.
‐‐ Ruth Trubnik, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics,
Delaware Valley College; Adjunct Professor, Temple University
24. The Effects of Readiness Assessment Tests (RATs) on Graduate Students’
Understanding of Key Academic Concepts
‐‐ Wendy Wachter-Schutz, Assistant Professor/Assistant Clinical Educator,
MS in Occupational Therapy Program, Philadelphia University
25. Striving towards National Prominence in a Teacher Education
Interdisciplinary Model at Lehigh Carbon Community College
‐‐ Melanie Wursta, Faculty/Coordinator of Teacher Education, Lehigh
Carbon Community College; Carly Simon, Making Teaching and Learning
Transparent Specialist, Lehigh Carbon Community College; Judy Brown
DuPaul, Part-time Faculty, Teacher Education, Lehigh Carbon Community
College
26. Preservice Teachers in Early Childhood/Special Education Inquiry into the
Effectiveness of Learning Centers
‐‐ Jane Yingling, Professor of Education, Education, Lebanon Valley
College; Elizabeth French, Professor of Education, Education, Lebanon
Valley College; Student Presenters: Alyssa Miller, Ashley Artz and Denise
Clausen
PTA Faculty
Facility Map
TLC Honors Provost’s Teaching Academy Members
Howard Gittis Student Center, 2nd Floor
FACILITY MAP
Registration: lobby outside of 200C
Resources
[ 2009 ]
[ 2010 ]
Shohreh Amini, College of
Science and Technology
William Aaronson, Fox
School of Business
Shenid Bhayroo, Center
for the Arts: School of
Communication and
Theater (Emeritus)
Rebecca Alpert, College
of Liberal Arts
Jean Boyer, College
of Education
Ken Finkel, College
of Liberal Arts
Steven Fleming, College of
Science and Technology
Terry Halbert,
University College
Alistair Howard, College
of Liberal Arts
Daniel Kern, Center
for the Arts: School of
Communication and Theater
General Sessions & Poster Session: 200C
Robert Pred, Fox
School of Business
Breakfast & Luncheon: 200AB
Rickie Sanders, College
of Liberal Arts
Breakout Sessions: 220, 217, A, B, C & D
Justin Shi, College of
Science and Technology
Find session handouts and other resources on the TLC website at
www.temple.edu/tlc.
Ina Calligaro, School
of Pharmacy
Peggy Dewolf, College of
Liberal Arts (Emeritus)
Luke Kahlich, Center for
the Arts: Boyer College of
Music and Dance (Emeritus)
Susan DeJarnatt, Beasley
School of Law
Claudia J. Dewane, College
of Health Professions
Eli C. Goldblatt, College
of Liberal Arts
Rachael Groner, College
of Liberal Arts
Amy E. Heath, College of
Education (Emeritus)
Robin A. Kolodny,
College of Liberal Arts
Dominique Kliger,
University College
Sally Kyvernitis, College of
Science and Technology
Janice Laurence,
College of Education
Nancy E. Morris, School of
Media and Communications
Sarah-Kate Lavan, College
of Education (Emeritus)
Nathaniel Norment, College
of Liberal Arts (Emeritus)
Maria Lorenz, College of
Science and Technology
Johnathan Nyquist, College
of Science and Technology
Sheryl Love, College of
Science and Technology
Alisa Peet, Associate
Professor, Medicine/General
Internal, School of Medicine
Lori Salem, Vice Provost
for Undergrad Studies
Paul Toth, College
of Liberal Arts
Juandalynn Taylor, Center
for the Arts: School of
Communication and
Theater (Emeritus)
Kariamu Welsh, Center for
the Arts: Boyer College
of Music and Dance
Tsvetelin Tsankov, College
of Science and Technology
Chang-Hee Won, College
of Engineering
Amy Weigand, College of
Liberal Arts (Emeritus)
[ 2011 ]
Li Bai, College of Engineering
Natasha Davis Williams,
College of Health
Professions (Emeritus)
Whitley Cooke, College
of Liberal Arts
Robert Yantorno, College
of Engineering (Emeritus)
Dana Dawson, Vice Provost
for Undergrad Studies
James C. Sellers, Vice Provost
for Undergrad Studies
Bess Wellborn Yates,
College of Liberal Arts
[ 2012 ]
Steve Fleming, College of
Science and Technology
Carol Harris-Shapiro,
College of Liberal Arts
James Heckman,
School of Medicine
David Ingram, Center
for the Arts: School of
Communication and Theater
PTA Faculty
TLC Honors Provost’s Teaching Academy Members, continued
Sheryl Love, College of
Science and Technology
Ann Valentine, College of
Science and Technology
Christine Miller, School of
Podiatric Medicine (Emeritus)
Pete Watkins, College
of Health Professions
(Faculty Guest)
Emily Moerer, Assistant
Vice Provost
[ 2013 ]
Patricia Moore-Martinez,
College of Liberal Arts
Robin Aronow, College
of Health Professions
Robin Musselman, College of
Liberal Arts (Faculty Guest)
Jean Boyer, College
of Education
Julie Phillips, Office
of the Provost
Gerard Brown, Center for
the Arts: Tyler School of Art
Shriram Pillapakkam,
College of Engineering
Konstantinos Chochlidakis,
Kornberg School of Dentistry
Jane Pontious, School
of Podiatric Medicine
Shawn Fagan, Vice Provost
for Undergrad Studies
Rickie Sanders, College
of Liberal Arts
Heath Fogg Davis,
College of Liberal Arts
Cynthia Folio, Center for
the Arts: Boyer College
of Music and Dance
Steve Kreinberg, Center
for the Arts: Boyer College
of Music and Dance
Elizabeth Pfeiffer, College
of Health Professions
Hai Qing, Kornberg
School of Dentistry
Catherine Schifter,
College of Education
Miriam Solomon, College
of Liberal Arts
Michael Stokes, Vice Provost
for Undergrad Studies
Istvan Varkonyi, Office
of The Provost
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